Conceptual framework of a strategy for the development of nuclear power in Russia to 2100

• Published in: Atomic energy (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 112; no. 6; pp. 391 - 403
• Main Authors: Adamov, E. O., Dzhalavyan, A. V., Lopatkin, A. V., Molokanov, N. A., Muravyov, E. V., Orlov, V. V., Kal’akin, S. G., Rachkov, V. I., Troyanov, V. M., Avrorin, E. N., Ivanov, V. B., Aleksakhin, R. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01-10-2012; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Capital costs; Competition; Conservation; Construction costs; Development strategies; Electric power generation; Electricity; Energy industry; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Mathematical models; Natural radioactivity; Nuclear Chemistry; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear engineering; Nuclear fuel cycle; Nuclear fuels; Nuclear Physics; Nuclear power; Nuclear power generation; Nuclear power plants; Nuclear reactor components; Nuclear reactors; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; R&D; Radiation; Radioactivity; Research & development; Research centers; Russia; Strategy; Studies; Uranium; Russia; Fast Reactor; Uranium; Plutonium; Thermal Reactor; Spend Fuel
• ISSN: 1063-4258; 1573-8205
• DOI: 10.1007/s10512-012-9574-x

The conceptual principles of a long-term strategy for the development of large-scale nuclear power in Russia based on fast reactors with natural safety and a closed NFC, conservation of the natural radioactivity balance for buried wastes, prevention of proliferation of weapons-grade materials, drawing uranium resources fully into energy production and ensuring that the nuclear method of electricity production is competitive are examined. The principal problems of nuclear power are characterized and ways to solve them are proposed. Mathematical models are used to examine scenarios for the development of nuclear power and the transition to a closed NFC.